Hello World

As you may have noticed, I am a user of flickr. This is a place to put your photos, but it's also a great way to keep up with your friends' photos. There's a ton of community features--you can join groups with specific areas of interest (there's a bloggers group, a DC area group, and hundreds or thousands more), you can leave comments on other people's photos, you can browse by image tags (keywords you assign your photos), and lots more. The best feature though, and the reason I'm writing about this, is the "contacts" feature. You can ally yourself with other flickr users, which has a couple of uses: there's a page where you can browse your contacts' newest photos, and (more usefully) you can set the privacy level on your own photos so that only your contacts can see them.

So that brings us to the point of this post: You should join flickr. I know, I know, you use one of those other photo gallery sites, and it works okay. Trust me. flickr is better. So sign up and give it a shot.